Hostages Are Rescued While McCain Visits Colombia While McCain visits Colombia, 15 hostages were rescued from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia known as FARC. In 2003, 15 people were taken hostage (3 being American) after their plane crashed in…

At 90, Mandela No Longer a Terrorist “President George Bush signed a bill on Tuesday taking Nobel Peace Prize winner and former South African President Nelson Mandela off the U.S. government’s terror watch list.” AHN. Special Scrutiny of Justice Dept…

Brooklyn Black Woman Dies Waiting for Treatment “A 49-year-old woman collapsed and died on the floor of a waiting room at a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital and lay there for more than an hour as employees ignored her, according to the…

Jindal Passes “Stealth Creationism” Bill SB 733, better known as the stealth-creationist “Lousiana Science Education Act,” was signed into law by Governor Bobby Jindal, with the support of other state Democrats. Alongside global warming, evolution, and cloning, state-supported religious creationist…

New Program Offers Drug-Addicted Mothers Cash for Birth Control, Sterilizations “The effort, Project Prevention, headed by Barbara Harris of North Carolina, who was invited to Mesa County by Commissioner Janet Rowland, offers $300 and the chance for drug-addicted women to…

Immigrant Women the Target of Houston Raid “Federal immigration agents arrested 160 employees on Wednesday in a raid on a used clothing and rag exporting plant. The authorities said it was the largest workplace raid ever here. Most of those…

Homeowners to Get New Deal “With sinking home values continuing to drag down the economy, Congress is poised to approve a huge package of housing legislation, including a refinancing program aimed at rescuing hundreds of thousands of homeowners in danger…

Don Imus Sparks Allegations of Racism Again “Imus is defending a remark he made about the arrests of suspended Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam Jones, saying he was trying to ‘make a sarcastic point.” Associated Press. Supreme Court Rules Against…

Poll: McCain’s Age Bigger Factor than Obama’s Race According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, lingering racial bias affects the public’s assessments of the Democrat from Illinois, but offsetting advantages and Sen. John McCain’s age could be bigger factors…

Obama Camp Apologizes to Snubbed Muslim Women “Barack Obama personally apologized Thursday to two Muslim women after campaign volunteers barred them from appearing in a picture because of their headscarves.” AFP Chinese Considered Black in South Africa “A high court…

E.U. Turns Back on Immigrants “European Union lawmakers voted Wednesday to allow undocumented migrants to be held in detention centers for up to 18 months and banned from European Union territory for five years.” New York Times. Colorado Religious Leaders…

Connerly: Obama’s Not Post-Race Connerly says, “Soothing rhetoric about uniting our nation against a backdrop of American flags isn’t sufficient to accomplish that objective. Specific policies like affirmative action – and where candidates stand on them – are where the…

Supreme Court to Hear Case From Muslims Held After 9/11 “The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether top government officials can be sued for damages by the Muslim men who were rounded up and imprisoned under harsh conditions…

Rep. Barbara Lee to Crackdown on ICE Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, sharply criticized the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency Friday and declared she would push for measures to reduce the fear she said agents have caused East Bay immigrant…

ICE Arrests 42 People in Rhode Island “Federal immigration authorities have arrested 42 people from South America who were allegedly in the country illegally.” Boston Globe. V.A. Bans Voter Drives “Voting rights groups are criticizing the Department of Veterans Affairs…

Without Proof, 97-Year-Old Can’t Vote Shirley Preiss cannot register in Arizona for the November elections without proof of citizenship. She was born in 1910 in Clinton, Ky., before birth certificates were issued. She said she no longer has a driver’s…

Ohio Judge Demands Death Penalty Method Examined In the face of a recent Supreme Court ruling that upheld the lethal injection method, an Ohio state judge declared the state must stop using a common combination of three chemicals to execute…

Report Refutes “Model Minority” Stereotype A report by New York University, the College Board and a commission of mostly Asian-American educators and community leaders says that Asian-Americans’ reputation for academic success has obscured important variations within the group — and…